MARRIAGE

Consanguinous, Abraham and Sarah

Ge 11:29; 12:13; 20:3,9-16

Isaac and Rebekah

Ge 24:3,4,67; 28:2

Jacob and his wives

Ge 29:15-30

See below, in the elaborated text

Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)

Ge 38:8,11; De 25:5-10; Ru 4:5; Mt 22:24; Mr 12:19-23; Lu 20:28

Parents contract for their children

Hagar selects a wife for Ishmael

Ge 21:21

Abraham for Isaac

Ge 24

Laban arranges for his daughters' marriage

Ge 29

Samson asks his parents to procure him a wife

Jud 14:2

Parents' consent requires in the Mosaic law

Ex 22:17

Presents given to parents to secure their favor

Ge 24:53; 34:12; De 22:29; 1Sa 18:25; Ho 3:2

Nuptial feasts

Ge 29:22; Jud 14:12; Es 2:18; Mt 22:11,12

Jesus present at

Joh 2:1-5

Ceremony attested by witnesses

Ru 4:1-11; Isa 8:1-3

The groom exempt one year from military duty

De 24:5

Bridal ornaments

Isa 49:18; Jer 2:32

Bridal presents

Ge 24:53; Ps 45:12

A herald preceded the bridegroom

Mt 25:6

Wedding robes adorned with jewels

Isa 61:10

Wives obtained

By purchase

Ge 29:20; Ru 4:10; Ho 3:2; 12:12

By kidnapping

Jud 21:21-23

Given by Kings

1Sa 17:25; 18:17,21

Daughters given in, as rewards of valor

Jud 1:12; 1Sa 17:25; 18:27

Wives taken by edict

Es 2:2-4,8-14

David gave one hundred Philistine foreskins for a wife

2Sa 3:14

Wives among the Israelites must be Israelites

Ex 34:16; De 7:3,4; 1Ch 23:22; Ezr 9:1,2,12; Ne 10:30; 13:26,27; Mal 2:11; 1Co 7:39; 2Co 6:14

Betrothal a quasi-marriage

Mt 1:18; Lu 1:27

Betrothal made with the spirit

Eze 16:8

Celibacy deplored

Jud 11:38; Isa 4:1; Jer 16:9

Advised

1Co 7:7,8,24-40

Obligations under, inferior to duty to God

De 13:6-10; Mt 19:29; Lu 14:26

Not binding after death

Mt 22:29,30; Mr 12:24,25

See BRIDE

See BRIDEGROOM

UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO

Ge 2:23,24; Ex 22:16,17; Le 18:6-18; 20:14,17,19-21; 21:1,7,13-15; Nu 36:8; De 21:10-14; 24:1-5; Pr 18:22; 21:9,19; Jer 29:6; Ho 2:19,20; Mal 2:13-16; Mt 5:31,32; Mr 6:17,18; 10:2-12; Mt 19:2-9; Lu 16:18; Ro 7:1-3; 1Co 6:16; 7:1-40; 9:5; 11:11,12; 1Ti 3:2,12; 4:1,3; 5:14; Heb 13:4

FIGURATIVE

Isa 54:5; 62:4,5; Jer 3:14; 31:32; Ho 1:2; 2:19,20; Eph 5:30-32; Re 19:7-9

Parables from

Mt 22:2; 25:1-10

See DIVORCE

See HUSBAND

See WIFE